Labina Mitevska

Labina Mitevska is an actress from Skopje, Macedonia, born there in 1975. She studied art and archaeology at Skopje's St. Kiril and Metodi University, attended the European Film College in Denmark, and studied art history at the University of Arizona. Her career started by chance when she took the part of Zamira, a young Macedonian Albanian girl, in Milcho Manchevski's Before the Rain (1994). She next appeared in the Macedonian theater production Tuku Taka Pod Oblaka (All of a Sudden Under the Clouds). In 1996 she played a supporting part in Michael Winterbottom's Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), and Winterbottom next cast her in I Want You (1998). She had the lead in the Czech film Loners in 2000 and then acted in Too Bad That Balkan Express Was Already Used, directed by Teona Mitevska. She has also contributed essays to the Macedonian magazines Start and Dnevnik.